Robin L Turner
LightNews LightNews
banner
Robin L Turner
@robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app
1.3K followers 820 following 450 posts
Mostly a reskeeter. tradition, gender, land tenure, and resource politics in Southern Africa. I block would be followers without profiles.
Posts Replies Media Videos
WOCs in CP @ #APSA@2025 starting with short courses today!
Women of Color in Comparative Politics A transregional professional and support network of women of color, non-binary, and gender expansive scholars of Comparative Politics. Join us. (https://forms.gle/bS4MpMmnSrCUoqcL7) APSA 2025 Events Short Course: Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts and Times of Heightened Global Tension (QMMR D) Wednesday, September 10, 9:00am to 1:00pm PDT Co-sponsored by Comparative Politics Section and WOCs in Comparative Politics Short Course: Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field (QMMR E) Wednesday, September 10, 1:30 to 5:30pm PDT Co-sponsored by Women, Gender & Politics Section Research and WOCs in Comparative Politics Pop-Up Community Building Event: Thursday, September 11, 6:00pm to 8:00pm PDT (email for location info) Roundtable: Making Your Own Network Fri, September 12, 4:00 to 5:30pm PDT APSA Theme Panel co-sponsored by Women’s Caucus for Political Science and WOCs in Comparative Politics
September 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Women of Color in Comparative Politics @ #APSA2025 !
Wed Short Courses: Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts and Times (AM) & Planning for Real (PM)
Thursday Pop-Up Event: 6-8 pm (DM me for location)
Friday Theme Panel: Making Your Own Network Roundtable, 4-5:30pm PDT
Women of Color in Comparative Politics A transregional professional and support network of women of color, non-binary, and gender expansive scholars of Comparative Politics. Join us. (https://forms.gle/bS4MpMmnSrCUoqcL7) APSA 2025 Events Short Course: Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts and Times of Heightened Global Tension (QMMR D) Wednesday, September 10, 9:00am to 1:00pm PDT Co-sponsored by Comparative Politics Section and WOCs in Comparative Politics Short Course: Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field (QMMR E) Wednesday, September 10, 1:30 to 5:30pm PDT Co-sponsored by Women, Gender & Politics Section Research and WOCs in Comparative Politics Pop-Up Community Building Event: Thursday, September 11, 6:00pm to 8:00pm PDT (email for location info) Roundtable: Making Your Own Network Fri, September 12, 4:00 to 5:30pm PDT APSA Theme Panel co-sponsored by Women’s Caucus for Political Science and WOCs in Comparative Politics
September 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Join our #APSA2025 Wednesday afternoon short course on Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field!
PLANNING FOR REAL: BRINGING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO THE FIELD An APSA Short Course Discussions on Navigating: • The body • Academic Responsibilities • Ethics • Practical Concerns • Gatekeepers • Community • Family • And much more Most fieldwork advice is very general in nature, proffered for supposedly neutral and unmarked researchers. This approach underestimates the variability of researchers’ bodies and positionalities across the span and dimensions of fieldwork including preparing, active field time, and reception. These varied bodies and positionalities are not ancillary to the planning and doing of fieldwork but influence every aspect of it. We take up these concerns in this interactive workshop session, sharing our experiences, insights and expertise, and creating space for participants to integrate their whole selves into planning and adapting field work. Wednesday, September 10th 1:30-5:30 p.m. See program for location
September 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
You're invited to learn more about interpretive methods at the 20th annual IMM Methods Cafe at #APSA2025! Sept. 11, 4-5:30 pm, Marriot Point Grey Room.
20th annual Methods Café Thursday, September 11th 4:00-5:30 pm PDT, Marriott Point Grey Room. The Interpretive Methods and Methodologies group is delighted to host our 20th annual Methods Café, an opportunity for social scientists at all career levels to learn more about interpretive methods in an informal setting. Read more about the Methods Café, topics, and experts here: https://www.interpretivemethods.com/methods-cafe-2025
September 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Ravecca addresses Latin American Political Science in authoritarian times here. Learned of this work from @tungohan.bsky.social
Book cover for the politics of political science: re-writing Latin American experiences
August 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
a dog with black fur and white paws lying on a dark hardwood floor looks up at the camera.
August 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Missing Lee Ann Fujii today
photo of 3 smiling women in sunglasses with LAF at the back center
March 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Black Women Writing African Politics & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Thuto Thipe, "Making home in Alexandra Township. 28 February virtual event at 11:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 Dakar, 18:00 Jozi, 19:00 EAT. Register at ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
CELEBRATED, CENTERED, AND CITED. The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research and DSA Land present Dr. Thuto Thipe. Making home in Alexandra Township: Black landownership in mid-twentieth century South Africa DATE: 28 February 2025 TIME: 11:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 Dakar, 18:00 Jozi, 19:00 EAT (Registration link in post) This event is open to all. All are invited to engage with Thuto Thipe’s work on black people’s landownership in mid-twentieth century Johannesburg, a time when the city was designed and legislated for white people’s exclusive permanent residence. Thipe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on the role of land and fixed property in the production and articulation race, gender, and class in 19th and 20th century South Africa.
January 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
walking my dog mostly in the street this am. my block is a bit better👇🏽
photo of snow covered rutted road intersection and sidewalks with a truck and a few houses visible
January 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #201,155!
celebrating 10 million users. # 200,155. First 10% Robin Turner. @ RobinLTurnerPhD@bsky.social Joined July 2, 2023.
September 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM
i’m sick of requests fue money but the timing of this one was excellent
donation request from Nancy Pelosi
September 11, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Many thanks to @jlynch13.bsky.social for this thread. Had a great meal! 👇🏽
Tea smoked duck, green beans, & eggplant Dan dan noodles sweet & sour whole fish
September 5, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field, an interactive #APSA2024 QMMR short course, will address the varied positionality of researchers and their relation to the field. We focus on navigating the how of comparative fieldwork in the bodies we're in, with all that we may carry.
PLANNING FOR REAL: BRINGING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO THE FIELD An APSA Short Course Discussions on Navigating: • The body • Academic Responsibilities • Ethics • Practical Concerns • Gatekeepers • Community • Family • And much more Most fieldwork advice is very general in nature, proffered for supposedly neutral and unmarked researchers. This approach underestimates the variability of researchers’ bodies and positionalities across the span and dimensions of fieldwork including preparing, active field time, and reception. These varied bodies and positionalities are not ancillary to the planning and doing of fieldwork but influence every aspect of it. We take up these concerns in this interactive workshop session, sharing our experiences, insights and expertise, and creating space for participants to integrate their whole selves into planning and adapting field work. Wednesday, September 4th, 9:00-1:00
August 30, 2024 at 7:47 PM
#APSA2024 Don't miss the Methods Café at #APSA2024! Come to discuss your interpretive methods-related Qs, stay for the *excellent* company. Hope to see you on Fri Sept 6, 2-3pm!
024 Methods Café! Friday, September 6th, 2:00-3:30pm EDT Pennsylvania Convention Center (PCC), 201B The Methods Café features a series of tables staffed by specialists with expertise in a range of interpretive methods and approaches. The Cafe is an informal setting allowing for one-on-one and group discussions, networking, and support. Our Tables this year include: Analyzing Political Discourse | Black Women's Interpretive and Intersectional Approaches | Comparative Interpretive Methods | Engagement & Action | Funding Interpretive Research | Interpretive Analysis of Violence | Indigenous Interpretive Methods | Interpreting US Social Movements | Interviewing | Political Ethnography | Positionality, Reflexivity, and Embodiment | Publishing Interpretive Research | Research Ethics & IRBs | Visual and Aural Analysis
August 30, 2024 at 3:53 PM
A large elephant in the foreground of a large grassy field with a gray blue sky Light brown dirt in the foreground with Brown, green leaf trees in the back and a brown and white impala (antelope) lying down in front of the trees
June 5, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Virtual Event! Dr. K Melchior Hall on An Abolitionist Approach to Transnational Black Feminism, April 16 @ 12 EST/16 UTC/19 EAT register: uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
CELEBRATED, CENTERED, AND CITED The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective, Makerere Institute of Social Research and DSA Land, Labour and Politics of Development present Dr. K. Melchor Quick Hall An Abolitionist Approach to Transnational Black Feminism DATE: April 16, 2024, TIME: 12 EST, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 GMT, 19:00 EAT Register: https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kUNVDWAjQumwr8xzj8tY8Q THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL. K. Melchor Quick Hall (she/her) is a popular education and community-based researcher, currently working as a postdoctoral fellow for Wellesley College’s Anti-Carceral Co-Laboratory and the Education Director at Global Village Farms. She advances abolitionist and food sovereignty futures that are longstanding commitments. She is the author of Naming a Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Writing in Darkness and the co-editor, with Gwyn Kirk, of Mapping Gendered Ecologies: Engaging with and Beyond Ecowomanism and Ecofeminism
April 8, 2024 at 2:45 PM
ButlerU grieves
A white and black sign is titled memorial to honor Palestinian lives lost. A green field on the Butler campus is covered in small white flags with a sign, titled memorial to honor Palestinian lives loss placed near the front
December 7, 2023 at 3:11 PM
the cover. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Book Cover with white background with black and green text. Edited by Jennifer Cyr and Sara Wallace Goodman Doing Good Qualitative Research
November 7, 2023 at 10:24 PM
The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Kamari Clarke on Two Reflections: Thinking Otherwise as a Recuperative Project November 7, 2023 at 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT, 20:00 EAT. This event is open to all.
Celebrated, Centered, and Cited The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Kamari Clarke Two Reflections: Thinking Otherwise as a Recuperative Project November 7, 2023 at 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT, 20:00 EAT Register using the link below https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tsxegK2fR9qUIVnTrwT0yA#/registration Part 3 in our 3-part series This event is open to all. Kamari Clarke is the Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Socio-legal Studies at University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies. For over twenty years, she has studied legal institutions, human rights and international law, religious nationalism and the politics of race and globalization. She is the author of Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (2019, Duke), Fictions of Justice (Cambridge, 2010), and Mapping Yorùbá Networks (Duke, 2004).
November 3, 2023 at 12:42 PM
The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Kamari Clarke on Two Reflections: Thinking Otherwise as a Recuperative Project November 7, 2023 at 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT, 20:00 EAT. This event is open to all.
Celebrated, Centered, and Cited The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Kamari Clarke Two Reflections: Thinking Otherwise as a Recuperative Project November 7, 2023 at 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT, 20:00 EAT Register using the link below https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tsxegK2fR9qUIVnTrwT0yA#/registration Part 3 in our 3-part series This event is open to all. Kamari Clarke is the Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Socio-legal Studies at University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies. For over twenty years, she has studied legal institutions, human rights and international law, religious nationalism and the politics of race and globalization. She is the author of Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (2019, Duke), Fictions of Justice (Cambridge, 2010), and Mapping Yorùbá Networks (Duke, 2004).
November 2, 2023 at 3:12 PM
So moved to listen to Joan Morgan describe the sister circle Black women organized to support Dee Barnes after she was assaulted in 1991 at NWSA.
Photo of Joan Morgan & other hip hop at 50 NWSA panelists
October 27, 2023 at 10:44 PM
Excited to have Butler U students present at NWSA! “Notes from Generation Z Radical Abolitionist: Ending Neoliberal Violence, Betrayal, and Injustice on Campus”
Title slide on left, 4 student presenters seated behind table at right
October 26, 2023 at 8:05 PM
The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Kamari Clarke on Two Reflections: Thinking Otherwise as a Recuperative Project November 7, 2023 at 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT, 20:00 EAT. This event is open to all.
Celebrated, Centered, and Cited The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Kamari Clarke Two Reflections: Thinking Otherwise as a Recuperative Project November 7, 2023 at 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT, 20:00 EAT Register using the link below https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tsxegK2fR9qUIVnTrwT0yA#/registration Part 3 in our 3-part series This event is open to all. Kamari Clarke is the Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Socio-legal Studies at University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies. For over twenty years, she has studied legal institutions, human rights and international law, religious nationalism and the politics of race and globalization. She is the author of Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (2019, Duke), Fictions of Justice (Cambridge, 2010), and Mapping Yorùbá Networks (Duke, 2004).
October 26, 2023 at 3:43 PM
All are invited to join Black Women Writing African Politics & the Makerere Institute of Social Research to discuss Erica Townsend-Bell's "Affirmative Action For What?: Afro-Uruguayans and the Path to Diaspora on 14 Sept. Register https://butleru.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MdQkRqr8QbeXYP9-2UqCgA
The Black Women Writing African Politics Collective & Makerere Institute of Social Research present Dr. Erica Townsend-Bell, "Affirmative Action For What? Afro-Uruguayans and the Path to Diaspora" DATE: 14 September 2023 TIME: 12:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 BST/WAT, 19:00 EAT Register at https://butleru.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MdQkRqr8QbeXYP9-2UqCgA PART 2 IN OUR 3-PART SERIES This event is open to all. All are invited to engage with Erica Townsend-Bell’s work on blackness, afro descent, and processes of racialization in Uruguay. Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Townsend-Bell studies the politics of intersectionality, comparative racial politics, and the politics of inclusion. She focuses on the ways in which race, class and gender and other markers of difference intersect to impact representation, participation, and the enjoyment of rights.
July 4, 2023 at 2:58 AM